Wellsville is a tiny city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,006 people and just one neighborhood, Wellsville is the 356th largest community in Missouri.
Unlike some cities, Wellsville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Wellsville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wellsville is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wellsville who work in sales jobs (14.67%), office and administrative support (10.54%), and maintenance occupations (10.33%).
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Wellsville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Wellsville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Wellsville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Wellsville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.92% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wellsville in 2022 was $19,455, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,820 for a family of four. However, Wellsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Wellsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wellsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wellsville include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Wellsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Wellsville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.6% of America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Wellsville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 34.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.2%), and 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Wellsville, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (26.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (78.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.